Georgina Hale
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Georgina Hale was a British actress. In a career spanning six decades, her credits include work in stage, film, and television. She was a British Academy Film Award winner and a Laurence Olivier Award
Hale (right) and actor Murray Melvin in 2007
Ruth Ellis
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Ruth Ellis was a Welsh-born nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, following the fatal shooting of her abusive lover, David Blakely.
Georgina Hale
…Two Sundays. In 1978, Hale appeared with Michael Gambon in the BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. In 1980, Hale portrayed Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, in an episode of the drama series Lady Killers. In 1990, Hale succeeded Elizabeth Estensen in the eponymous…
Ruth Ellis
The Magdala pub in 2008. Two "bullet holes" in the wall at lower left were drilled by the pub's landlady in the 1990s.
The site of Ellis's grave (marked by a small post) in St Mary's Church, Amersham, in July 2022